Austin Butler is the latest actor to take on the challenge of playing Elvis Presley. The Californian, who will turn 32 in August, is the protagonist, along with Tom Hanks, of the new film by Baz Luhrmann. Before starring in biopic (biographical film) of the ‘King of Rock’, Butler began his career in youth series and in 2019 he was part of the cast of the tape Once Upon a Time in… Hollywood.
Tape Elvis It was presented at the recent Cannes Festival, and the reactions were immediate: from a 12-minute ovation to a considerable handful of positive reviews.
The tape ‘Elvis’ was presented at the recent Cannes Film Festival, and the reactions were immediate: from a 12-minute ovation to a considerable handful of positive reviews.
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For Austin Butler, critics point to a “dazzling and convincing” performance as the ‘King of Rock’. Even for many, it is like seeing Elvis again. “The King is alive and well, at least on screen,” said Jordan Farley of Game Radar.
“I basically put the rest of my life on hold for two years and just took in as much as I could,” Butler told a Cannes Film Festival news conference about preparing for Presley’s performance.
The actor became obsessed with scrutinizing the character’s edges, dividing his life into periods of time and checking how his voice and movement changed. “And I spent two years studying, trying to find his humanity as best I could through that,” he said.
Butler was born in Anaheim, California, on August 17, 1991; His mother, Lori Anne, who ran a home daycare center and died in 2014, and his father, David, a commercial real estate appraiser, divorced when the actor was seven, according to Vogue.
According to his biography on IMDb, Butler has always enjoyed movies of all kinds. “James Dean was the actor I was obsessed with as a kid,” he told Vogue“I’ve seen Rebel Without a Cause (rebel without a cause) Many times”.
“James Dean was the actor I was obsessed with growing up,” he told Vogue, “I’ve seen ‘Rebel Without a Cause’ so many times.”
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Butler’s career began when his stepbrother turned heads at an Orange County fair. The actor accompanied him to an audition, in which he got a spot. “I really had no passion for anything involving other people at the time,” he told the UK edition of GQ. “I didn’t do sports. I didn’t do things with other kids,” he added.
However, according to the magazine, when he realized that he could really enjoy acting, he sought out a teacher and gradually began to get more roles.
Acting gained more ground in his life and aspirations, and he dropped out of school, with the support of his parents, to pursue a career in front of the cameras. She began her career on Disney, Nickelodeon and CW teen series. she appeared in Hannah Montanain Ned’s School Survival GuideiCarly o Zoey 101 y The Carrie Diariesamong other.
“I was kind of embarrassed about some of the things I had to do, but I just had to get into it,” Butler told ‘Vogue.'”
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“I was kind of embarrassed about some of the things I had to do, but I just had to get into it,” Butler told Vogue. “So I decided to treat each of those jobs as a way to grow.”
A GQthe actor told him that he wanted to do roles like What’s Eating Gilbert Grape o The Basketball Diarieyes “She was watching Raging Bull and those kinds of movies, and I was like, I don’t want to be just a guy walking through a door in slow motion.”
In the cinema he has been part of the distribution of titles such as The Dead Don’t Die, The Intruders o Yoga Horses. In 2019 he played Tex Watson in Once Upon a Time in… Hollywoodby Quentin Tarantino.
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Later came the opportunity to play Elvis at the hands of Australian director Baz Luhrmann, who had been considering other options such as Miles Teller or Harry Styles before Butler’s tape came to hand. “From the moment I met Austin, he carried something of Elvis with him. He had a touch of swagger,” the director told Vogue.
Already with Butler in the project, filming was put on hold in March 2020, with the arrival of covid-19. The actor took advantage of the delay in the start of filming to delve deeper into the role.
“I think the movie would have been very different if we had started filming at that point. And I am grateful that I had time to marinate, ”he told GQ.
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